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Author : Anne Garreta
Release : 2015-04-21
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sphinx by : Anne Garreta
Download or read book Sphinx written by Anne Garreta. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.
Author : Maghan Keita
Release : 2000
Genre : African American historians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Race and the Writing of History by : Maghan Keita
Download or read book Race and the Writing of History written by Maghan Keita. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa may be familiar to contemporary academics, those of his important precursors and contemporaries are not widely known. Similarly, although contemporary figures such as Martin Bernal, Molefi Assante, and other "Afrocentrists" are the subject of heated debate, such debates are rarely illuminated by an awareness of the traditions that preceded them. Race and The Writing of History redresses this imbalance, using Bernal's Black Athena and its critics as an introduction to the historical inquiries of African-American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts. Keita examines the controversial legacy of writing history in America and offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new historiographies and epistemologies. As a result, this book sheds new light on how ideas about race and racism have shaped the stories we tell about ourselves.
Author : Willis Goth Regier
Release : 2004-12-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Book of the Sphinx by : Willis Goth Regier
Download or read book Book of the Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier. This book was released on 2004-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.
Author : L. Parramore
Release : 2008-10-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 708/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading the Sphinx by : L. Parramore
Download or read book Reading the Sphinx written by L. Parramore. This book was released on 2008-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.
Author : Eleanor Dobson
Release : 2022-08-18
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Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Writing the Sphinx by : Eleanor Dobson
Download or read book Writing the Sphinx written by Eleanor Dobson. This book was released on 2022-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of the high-profile discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
